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The Royal Horticultural Society bare root hedging range

	The Royal Horticultural Society bare root hedging range is a very low cost way of planting a hedge. The bare root plants are only available to buy and plant when dormant; (November-March). These plants, with known seed provenence, are grown in 220 acres of rich Herefordshire soil.
	= Royal Horticultural Society Bare Root Hedging Range
The plants are dispatched directly from the fields, rather than through a nursery, they are much fresher than imported or even stored plants. RHS bare root plants are grown through low input horticultural methods. Plants are rotated with pigs annually, to improve soil condition. Water is harvested in the winter for use in the summer. No heat or polytunnels are used and, as the plants are dispatched direct from the fields, transport is kept to a minimum.

Oval leaf privet - Hedging Packs

Oval leaf privet - Hedging Pack - Ligustrum ovalifolium

Dense clusters of white flowers in July and August followed by shiny, spherical, black fruit and oval, rich-green leaves. This vigorous oval leaf privet makes an excellent, pollution-tolerant hedge for an urban or suburban site. Thriving in sun or shade, the lustrous, dark green foliage provides an evergreen backdrop for ornamental and feature plants.

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Garden care: Plants grown as free-standing specimens require minimal pruning - where necessary remove any misplaced or diseased branches in late-winter or early spring. Trim hedging plants twice yearly - in May and August. After pruning apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted compost or manure around the base of the plant.

Oval leaf privet - Hedging Pack - Ligustrum ovalifolium

Ligustrum ovalifolium is a very strong hedge that stays green in a mild winter and thrives almost anywhere. The Evergreen Privet is suitable for any type of soil and is easy to clip into shape. For a beautiful dense hedge, you need to plant 5 per metre. Ligustrum ovalifolium is a very strong hedge that requires minimal maintenance.

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Beech - Hedging Packs

Copper beech - Hedging Pack - Fagus sylvatica 'Atropurpurea'

Copper beech - Hedging Pack

Fagus sylvatica 'Atropurpurea'

A splendid tree with purple leaves that turn a rich copper in autumn. As a tree it is only suited to large gardens or parks, grown as specimens in the lawn. However, it does make a superb hedge, retaining the brown leaves through winter and only loosing them when the new foliage appears in spring. It will make a lovely formal hedge that also acts as an excellent windbreak.

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Garden care: Requires minimal pruning if grown as a tree, removing any broken, diseased or crossing branches in late autumn or winter. Trim as a hedge in August, but any renovative pruning needs to be done in early spring. When planting incorporate lots of well-rotted garden compost in the planting hole and stake firmly.

Common beech - hedging range 'Fagus sylvatica'

Common beech - Hedging range 'Fagus sylvatica'

A splendid tree with green leaves that turn a rich copper in autumn. As a tree it is only suited to large gardens or parks, grown as specimens in the lawn. However, it does make a superb hedge, retaining the brown leaves through winter and only loosing them when the new foliage appears in spring. It will make a lovely formal hedge that also acts as an excellent windbreak.

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Red and Green Beech Hedge - Hedging Shrub

Red and Green Beech Hedge - Hedging Pack

Order these popular, robust hedging shrubs for a really striking hedge! With the combination of one with red leaves and one with green leaves the common beech hedge is truly unique. The leaves do go brown in the autumn, but they keep their leaves until the following spring, giving you a real hedge even in winter. The hedge has 2 different colourings in summer and winter! You can of course also plant just a green hedge, or just a red one, with no variation in the colour!

Packs of 10 or 20

Common hawthorn - hedging range 'Crataegus monogyna'

Common hawthorn - Hedging range

Crataegus monogyna

Fragrant white flowers in May, followed by spherical, glossy, dark red fruit, and deeply lobed, glossy, dark green leaves. Hawthorn makes a great specimen tree or boundary hedge for a range of settings. A valuable food source and refuge for native birds and insects, the spiny thorns serve as a deterrent against potential intruders.

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Garden care: In late winter or early spring remove any misplaced, diseased or crossing branches. After pruning apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted garden compost or manure around the base of the plant.

Hibiscus Syriacus - Ornamental Hedge

Order this gorgeous Hibiscus and enjoy a beautiful flowering hedge! This unusual Hibiscus hedge with mixed coloured flowers will really make your friends envious. The beautiful flowers appear from July until autumn and spread through the whole hedge. Loses its leaves both in autumn and winter. This hedge has 3 different phases. Spring – green, summer and autumn – green with flowers and winter – bare with no leaves.

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Common hornbeam - hedging range 'Carpinus betulus'

Common hornbeam - Hedging range 'Carpinus betulus'

Vivid green catkins in March, followed by clusters of green fruit, and toothed mid-green leaves turning orange and gold in autumn. Hornbeam is an excellent native tree for a large garden. Pyramidal in shape, it tolerates wet, clay soils and responds well to pruning, making it perfect for training as a formal hedge.

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Garden care: To train as a central-leader standard remove all of the lateral branches on the lowest third of the main stem and shorten the laterals by half on the middle third, making angled cuts to an outward-facing bud. On the upper third remove only dead, diseased or damaged growth and crossing stems. It is essential though that any pruning is undertaken in late autumn or winter when they are fully dormant as the sap has a tendancy to 'bleed' if pruned at any other time of the year.

Hazelnut - Hedging range - 'Corylus avellana'

Elegant, golden-yellow catkins appear in late winter and early spring and are closely followed by mid-green, heart-shaped leaves. A native of European woodland, it has long been a staple ingredient in our hedgerows. Edible nuts that are rich in vitamins, protein and unsaturated fats, ripen from late summer on this deciduous, semi-formal hedge.

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Garden care: Plant immediately upon receipt for best results into a well prepared soil. Cut back in late winter to maintain the shape. Apply a 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted organic matter around the base of the plant in early spring.

Field maple - hedging range 'Acer campestre'

Field maple - hedging range 'Acer campestre'

This fast growing native makes a wonderful dense, deciduous hedge and is quite tolerant of coastal conditions and cold, exposed sites. In spring the emerging deeply lobed foliage is flushed with red, but it gradually turns a lush, mid green and stays that colour throughout summer. It then takes on buttery yellow tones as the temperatures start to drop again in autumn. Small greenish-yellow flowers appear in spring, which are hardly noticeable, but the subsequent, winged fruits are quite attractive. Plant at 45cm intervals.

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Garden care: Cut back in winter when the plants are fully dormant as Acers tend to 'bleed' sap if cut while they are actively growing.

Other Hedging

Hardy English Lavender - Hedging range

Lavender 'Munstead'

Lavender makes an excellent low hedge or path edging where the perfume can be appreciated as you brush past the aromatic evergreen foliage.

This neat, compact variety of English lavender bears masses of dark purple-blue flower spikes. The fragrant stems of Lavender ‘Munstead’ are ideal for cutting or drying, and the nectar-rich flowers are particularly attractive to bees.

Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 60cm (24”).

36 or 72 Plug plants

Pot up plants using free-draining compost, and grow them on in frost free conditions until large enough to plant outside. Once they are well grown, acclimatise English lavender plants to outdoor conditions over 7 to 10 days before planting out on free draining soil in full sun. Lavenders dislike wet ground, particularly during winter. Improve heavy soil conditions by adding coarse grit or sharp sand prior to planting. When growing English lavender in large patio containers, use a well drained soil based compost such as John Innes No. 3. After planting, prune lavender plants to encourage bushy growth.

Laurel - Hedging 'Prunus Laurocerasus Rotundifolia'

Prunus Laurocerasus Rotundifolia is a dense fast-growing evergreen hedge it has glossy green leaves and produces pretty creamy white upright flowers late in spring and red berries in autumn. This tall growing variety offers a lot of privacy growing up to 5 metres tall and 4 metres wide. Grows well in full sun or shade. We supply bareroot plants which establish themselves more quickly than ones supplied in pots. Plant 3-4 per meter for a dense hedge.

5, 10 or 20 Plants

Lawson's Cypress 'Columnaris' - Hedge

Lawson's Cypress (Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana 'Columnaris') is perhaps the most famous blue, slender, hedging conifer. It is one of the most decorative varieties and keeps its fine colour in winter. This shrub is very strong and dense with a bush-like habit. For a dense hedge plant 3 per metre.

Packs of 6 & 18

Hornbeam - Bare Root Hedging 'Carpinus betulus'

Resembles 'Beech' in stature but smaller, spreads with age. Fluted gray bark with ovate ribbed leaves that turn yellow in autumn. likes heavy wet soils, good over chalk.

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Summer Hedge - Grow your own flowering hedge

This collection, specially selected by us, ensures a cheerful and colourful, flowery hedge. The various shrubs together, form a delicious 'Summer hedge'. This hedge gives you something to enjoy the whole summer through. Height supplied 40-50 cm. You will receive the following: 1 Mock Orange (Philadelphus ‘Virginal’) – flowers in May with creamy-white fragrant flowers. 1 Fraser Photinia (Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’) – the young leaves are a lovely bright red colour. 1 Potentilla (Potentilla fruticosa ‘Goldfinger’) – fresh yellow flowers from April to August. 1 Weigelia (Weigelia ‘Bristol Ruby’) – red flowers appear from April to June. 1 Golden Privet (Ligustrum ovalofolium aureum) – an evergreen shrub in summer and winter.

Packs of 5 & 10